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ELDER A. H. KAUFFMAN. 



r anaticism tLxplained 

Symptoms, Cause and Cure. 



BY 



ELDER A. H. KAUFFMAN 

Author of 

1 i Revelation Explained" and 

Editor of ' ' The Apostolic Visitor" 



"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times 
some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, 
and doctiines of devils."— 1 Tim. 4. 1. 



Published by the Author, 

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

1904. 



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COPYRIGHTED, 1904, 
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DEDICATORY. 
To the Holiness movement is this little 
volume affectionately dedicated. 



CONTENTS. 

Chapter. Page 

I. A Warning Voice 7 

II. What is Fanaticism 13 

III. Symptoms of Fanaticism 18 

IV. The Cause of Fanaticism 25 

V. How a Saint Becomes Fanatical 33 

VI. Satanic Demonstrations 38 

VII. Holy Ghost Demonstrations.. 41 

VIII. Satanic Conviction 45 

IX. Satanic Conversions 50 

X. Personal Observations 52 

XI. Discerning of Spirits 62 

XII. The Cure of Fanaticism 65 

XIII. A Word to the Accused 70 

XIV. How to Resist Fanaticism .... 75 
XV. Personal Experiences 82 

XVI. Satanic Religion (Watson)... 92 

XVII. Satanic Impressions (Knapp) 95 

XVIII. Fanaticism (Godby) 105 



PREFACE. 

The first impression the author had of 
writing on the subject of Fanaticism was 
after giving a discourse on the subject at 
the Dimondale camp meeting of the Apos- 
tolic Holiness Union of Michigan, on Sun- 
day morning, August 21, 1904. The said 
discourse created such an interest that sev- 
eral persons requested him to put it in print. 
While praying over this matter, the need of 
a book on this subject presented itself. We 
examined the catalogues of several large 
book publishers and found that the field was 
open for a book on this subject. While 
meditating over the advisability of publish- 
ing such a book, and while praying over the 
matter, the plan of the book came to us 
chapter after chapter until we were con- 
vinced that God was in it. The author can 
truly say that the contents of this book were 
his honest convictions for several years ; but 
had no thoughts of publishing them. The 
outbreak of Fanaticism in the Holiness ranks 
and especialty in the last few camp meetings 
we attended, is no doubt the cause of pub- 
lishing this book at this time. It is the 



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honest conviction of the author that it is 
high time that the Holiness people have 
some teaching on these lines. "Necessity is 
the Mother of Invention." 

To strengthen our arguments we have 
added articles from the pen of Rev. G. D. 
Watson, Rev. M. W. Knapp and Rev. W. B. 
Godbey. In giving this book to the public, 
we call special attention to the fact that it is 
largely written from the experience of the 
author, who was himself ruined by fanat- 
icism, but was rescued by the power of God. 

May this little book, under the blessing of 
God, be a beacon light to many a tempest- 
tossed soul, and enable it to stear between 
the rock of formality and the rock of fanat- 
icism and thus make the haven of eternal 
rest in safety, is the prayer of the author. 
A. H. KAUFFMAN. 

November 5, 1904. 



CHAPTER I. 



A Warning Voice. 

We have heard it said, "If you are afraid 
of fanaticism your place is at the mourner's 
bench." And then we have heard a preacher 
say, "Some folks are awfully afraid of fan- 
aticism these days, but they don't seem to 
have any fear of formality." We want to 
say that both are not only to be feared, but 
also avoided. The above language proves 
how ignorant some folks are of fanaticism. 
Very few people know what fanaticism is; 
in fact, fanatics themselves don't know what 
it is ; if they did, they would not be fanatic ; 
hence the great need of having ''fanaticism 
explained," and with it, "words of warning." 

We frequently read articles on fanaticism, 
but the authors do not seem to have the cor- 
rect idea of real fanaticism. Most every- 
body thinks that when a person becomes 
somewhat of an extremist on churchanity, 
water baptism, pork eating, dress, or divine 
healing they are fanatics. We sometimes 
hear the expression, "She is a fanatic on 
dress," or "he is a fanatic on divine heal- 



8 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

ing," etc. We want to say that such expres- 
sions only show that the persons that make 
them are destitute of the knowledge of fan- 
aticism. 

We admit that a fanatic person is always 
an extremist, but all extremists are not fan- 
atics. The definition of fanaticism is "ex- 
cessive enthusiasm." — Webster. 

We have met many extremists that were 
a long ways from "excessive enthusiasm. " 
They were as dead and dry as a door nail. 
Their work is always to tinker on the out- 
side; as a rule they don't go deeper than to 
the skin. Their burden is mostly on clothes, 
sometimes on buildings, color of paint, or 
wallpaper. We knew of one that rebuked a 
preacher for having false teeth. He took 
them out and lived, ate, and preached for 
thirty years without teeth, to please the ex- 
tremist. He did not want to be a stumbling 
block to any one. Extremists generally deal 
in material things, because they are too dead 
to understand anything about spiritual 
things ; but fanaticism is a thousand miles 
beyond an extremist. 

Extremists are very plenty among the 
legal and formal churches, while fanaticism 
is not found there at all. It would not be 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 9 

accepted; it would not fit; hence, it is not 
found there. 

Neither fanatics nor extremists are found 
among the worldly popular churches. They 
are perfectly free from either of these par- 
ties, but both these parties are found among 
the Holiness churches. The question is 
asked, "Why is this?" Well, we will ex- 
plain. The formal churches have not much 
of the Spirit; with them it is mostly all laws, 
forms, customs, habits, ruts, grooves, chan- 
nels, and works ; more after the letter than 
after the Spirit; hence a good field for the 
extremist, but no field at all for the fanatic. 

The worldly, popular churches have 
neither forms nor Spirit; everything that 
fills the house and swells the treasury is 
allowable, yea acceptable ; both the discipline 
and the Bible are to a large extent a dead 
letter to them. Now, this would be no field 
for extremists ; folks would laugh them to 
scorn if they would talk against dress, or 
fashion, or false teeth to them. No ex- 
tremist will work among them. Nor is it a 
field for a fanatic. They would send for a 
police and the patrol wagon and take him 
out every time. These churches are too 
worldlv for the extremist and too dead for 



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the fanatic. "Excessive enthusiasm" would 
not fit in either, hence is not found there. 

But a real true Holiness church has both 
the form and the power, the letter and the 
Spirit, the discipline, the Bible, and the Holy 
Ghost, and hence is just the field for both 
the extremist and the fanatic to work in, 
and they do work in it if not rebuked. But 
some one said "we keep the fire so* hot it 
burns them out." That is just where many 
folks make the mistake. The hotter the fire 
and the higher the tide, the more the fanatic 
is at home if not detected and rebuked, and 
the lower the tide the more the extremist is 
at home. The fanatic can not do anything at 
low tide, hence when a church gets to be 
extreme in material things they have not 
much spiritual power; and when she is real 
spiritual she has not much form or fuss 
about material things ; she regulates herself 
without law or discipline. The Holy Ghost 
prayer meeting, the Holy Ghost revival, the 
Holy Ghost camp meeting are the harvest 
fields for the fanatic devil. He usually does 
his best work around the altar, and in some 
cases has control of it entirely. He usually 
does his work so successfully that preachers, 
evangelists, £nd presiding elderfe do not 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 11 

detect him, and they often praise God for 
his counterfeit stuff, which in their judg- 
ment is next to perfection. "My people are 
destroyed for lack of knowledge/' is as true 
today as it was in the day in which it was 
spoken. We remember hearing a preacher 
say not so very long ago, "While one is 
carried off by fanaticism, formality carries 
off its thousands." We would not dispute 
with the brother, there are a thousand for- 
malists to one fanatic, but we also make this 
statement: "That one fanatic can (and does) 
more harm to the real cause of Holiness in 
one camp meeting than one thousand for- 
malists can do in a whole year; one enemy 
in disguise in the camp is more to be feared 
than one thousand in uniform on the out- 
side." 

Again, formality always takes the back 
seat in these holy convocations, but fanat- 
icism is always in the front, and generally 
close to the leader, and is apparently carry- 
ing the burden of the meeting; hence we 
raise the warning voice, and trust the good 
Lord will send the sound of it far and wide, 
so it will echo and re-echo to every nook and 
corner in this wide world, and reach the ear 
of every member of the Holiness movement 



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on the entire globe, for they are the only 
people that need the warning. None else is 
in danger of becoming a fanatic; no more so 
than a polar bear is in danger of being sun 
struck in his home land. 



CHAPTER II. 



What is Fanaticism? 

We answer — ''Excessive enthusiasm ; wild 
and extravagant notions of religion ; relig- 
ious frenzy/' — Webster. 

What is a Fanatic? 

44 A person affected by excessive enthu- 
siasm, particularly on religious subjects; one 
who indulges wild and extravagant notions 
of religion ; and sometimes exhibits strange 
motions, postures, and vehement vocifera- 
tions in religious worship. Fanatics some- 
times affect to be inspired or to have inter- 
course with superior beings.'* — Webster. 

If a fanatic is a person affected by "exces- 
sive enthusiasm'* the question naturally 
arises, "What is enthusiasm?" 

i. A belief, or conceit of private revela- 
tion ; the vain confidence, or opinion of a 
person, that he has special divine communi- 
cations from the Supreme Being, or a 
familiar intercourse with him. 

2. Heat of imagination ; violent passion 
or excitement of the mind, in pursuit of 
some object, inspiring extravagant hope and 
confidence of success. 



14 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

Hence the same heat of imagination, chas- 
tined by reason or experience, becomes a 
noble passion, an elevated fancy, a warm 
imagination, an ardent zeal, that forms sub- 
lime ideas, and prompts to the ardent pur- 
suits of laudable objects. Such is the en- 
thusiasm of the poet, the orator, the painter, 
and the sculptor; such is the enthusiasm of 
the patriot, the hero and the Christian. " — 
Webster. 

What Then is An Enthusiast? 

"One who imagines he has special, or 
supernatural converse with God, or special 
communications from Him/' — Webster. 

When a person is converted (born of God) 
he has life (spiritual life) enough to be en- 
thused over it ; he talks about it, sings about 
it, tries to get others to seek it, he enjoys it, 
manifests it in his daily walk and conversa- 
tion; his imaginations are warm indeed; he 
talks with God ; gets blessed ; has a good 
time ; loves God ; hates sin ; bears fruit, and 
is indeed a new and a happy creature. When 
this same person gets sanctified wholly, or in 
other words, receives the baptism with the 
Holy Ghost and fire, he gets the life more 
abundant, and hence the manifestation of it 
will be more abundant also. He bears the 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 15 

same kind of fruit, but more of it; he loves 
God more, because his loving capacities are 
increased; he hates sin more; his motives 
and designs for doing good are intensified ; 
he is a power in the hands of God for good : 
has wonderful experiences and blessings 
from God. The Lord takes him into fellow- 
ship (partnership) with Himself and uses 
him as an instrument for the Holy Ghost to 
preach, pray, or work through for the salva- 
tion of the lost, and also to bear soul bur- 
dens for the sick, for the penitent, and in 
many other ways He uses them to carry on 
His divine work on earth. This is enthu- 
siasm that is of God and is alright; wish to 
God we had more of it. But "excessive 
enthusiasm" means to be pushed over; to go 
too far; to exceed the Spirit; to not only 
have a warm imagination, but a heated one ; 
and like a hot box on a car wheel, gets hotter 
and hotter, until it throws off a flame and 
stops a whole train of cars, or causes death 
and destruction. So a person that is a 
fanatic was once cold, then warm, and 
then pushed over by the devil into "exces- 
sive enthusiasm" runs ahead of the spirit of 
God, ahead of the spirit of the meeting, 
ahead of the God chosen leader, and becomes 



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like a hot box; sets things ablaze with the 
wrong kind of fire ; things go wrong; the 
Holy Spirit is grieved ; the saints are 
divided ; the crowd gets disgusted ; the mul- 
titude unmanageable ; conviction is driven 
away ; things run riot ; the train has a hot 
box, and must stop to cool it off, or destruc- 
tion is certain. 

This kind of business has been carried on 
to such an extent that some camp meeting- 
committees had to have from 10 to 30 police 
to keep order. Some camp meetings have 
been cut down to one week because of the 
rabble and disorder of the disgusted multi- 
tudes. The cause of this disturbance is gen- 
erally laid to the straight preaching against 
the popular sins of the day. We will not 
dispute this ; we know such cases in and out- 
side of the Bible. But we also take the stand 
that in many cases, if not in most cases, it 
is the shrieking, screaming, henious cries of 
the fanatics ; the devil knows how to drive 
conviction away, divide the forces of God's 
people, break the meeting up, and bring the 
real work of the Holy Ghost into disgrace. 
This is one way of defeating God's people, 
and he has done it very successfully in many 
places. 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 17 

Reader, if you have any doubts in your 
mind of the reality of these things, keep on 
reading this book till you get to the end ; 
and when you go to the next Holiness camp 
meeting lift up your eyes and you will see 
the folks whose photo we are now taking. 
We are not going to have it retouched, so it 
will just be real and you can't help knowing 
the folks when you see them ; but be very- 
sure that you are not in the group, I know 
you are so sure that you are not there that 
you will not look to see yourself, but you 
had better be sure about it, examine the 
group closely, carefully, prayerfully. 



CHAPTER III. 



Symptoms of Fanaticism. 

If fanaticism is really understood, it is not 
hard to locate. Its symptoms are very clear 
and in all cases much the same; but the 
trouble is that very few people are posted in 
this craft and ascribe it to the workings of 
the Holy Ghost, hence are not suspicious 
and do not look for symptoms of any wrong 
thing. The devil is very cunning in select- 
ing his material and always takes such that 
have the confidence of the people, and unless 
they are posted on this subject, will be so 
hoodwinked by their confidence that they 
overlook and do not notice things that in 
other persons they would detect. It has 
been said "that love is blind," but we have 
come to the conclusion that in many cases it 
is deaf also. 

Symptom First. 

All fanatics will have much to say about 
dreams, visions, and experiences. They will 
have much to say about the extraordinary 
things that God is doing for them ; the deer 
lessons He is teaching them ; the wonderful 
things He is showing them ; everything is 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 19 

wonderful ; the answers to prayers are won- 
derful. Well, you sit and listen and it is 
wonderful indeed; you hear them tell it 
again and again ; you believe them , you love 
to hear them; you talk about them yourself; 
you relate these wonders to others. The 
wonderful Sister P. ; the wonderful Brother 
D. There is always something w r onderful 
about the fanatics. We never saw it fail. 
They are w r onderful persons and unless they 
were they would not be noticed. This is a 
sure symptom. 

They Spend Much Time in Their Closets. 
It is there where they get these visions 
and learn these wonderful things ; hence they 
will tell you much of their experience that 
happens while in their closet. "God showed 
me while on my knees" is a very common 
expression of a fanatic. They have much 
more to say of what God told them while 
in prayer than what they learned in reading 
the Bible. You will notice that the study of 
the Word is of second importance to them, 
as they get their messages on their knees. 
The Lord told me, the Lord told me, the 
Lord told me, are words that are spoken 
over and over again by them. The Lord 
don't seem to speak much to them through 



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the Bible, but through the voice that speaks 
to them in the closet, and the words they 
hear there are law and gospel to them, 
whether they agree with the Bible or not ; 
they contend that they are of God because 
they heard them while in prayer, and will 
not be persuaded otherwise, for they actually 
believe all they hear in the closet is of God. 
They Are Not Teachable. 
They are so sure that they are right in 
these things that they are not teachable, but 
are teachers; at it, all the time. The new 
light they receive is mostly on eating, drink- 
ing, dressing, fasting, etc. ; some things that 
are in advance of the common run of things 
with the Holiness folks. Some of them that 
we knew said that God told them that they 
must not eat anything that has sugar in it; 
no candy, no cake, no pie, no jelly — nothing 
sweet ; and because God told them they had 
to obey ; and if it was wrong for them it was 
wrong for others ; that God was no respector 
of persons, and so they are everlastingly at 
it, telling their experience and exhorting 
others to obey God, because they heard it in 
the closet while on their knees it must be of 
God. The same with eating of meat, pickel, 
fruit, etc., until some have just almost 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 21 

starved themselves. We know a dear preci- 
ous soul who went on these lines until re- 
duced to almost a skeleton. Now when told 
that there are no such things in the Bible 
they will declare that God talks to folks 
today the same as He always did, and the 
reason you did not hear Him was because 
you did not live close enough to Him. They 
are not teachable ; they will not be convinced 
that they are wrong. If you oppose them 
they will tell you a number of cases where 
their prayers were answered, and of things 
God told them that came true ; and they can 
generally find plenty of them and they will 
have it their way. They are not teachable 
because they are in advance of you. 

They Are Not Under Authority. 
"There are no straps on me/' "I am not 
afraid of clay any more." They have a bold, 
defying spirit; the tone of their voice is 
authoritative. If they have a message it 
must be delivered. "God wants me to tell 
this/' and they will tell it. I am not afraid 
of the preachers any more ; and it is true, 
they will obey their impression no matter 
what the leader of the meeting may say. 
The tender, mild, gentle, humble dove-like 
spirit is gone; it is authority now with them. 



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Harsh, raspy, sour, cutting, commanding, 
they say they are free now; don't have to 
obey any one but God. It is I, I do, I go, 
I am, I, I, I with them ; all admonition, 
warning, advise, instruction and opposition 
is persecution to them. They count all who 
differ from them their enemies and keep 
themselves on the defensive side. 
Another Symptom Is 
the discerning of spirits ; all fanatics have it, 
and all fanatics use it. This is, no doubt, the 
devil's best weapon. They say they can tell 
by looking at a person whether he is right 
in his soul, or not; and as they advance in 
the craft they get the impression that they 
must tell folks that they are deceived ; 
and if they don't warn them they will be 
lost ,and they will be held responsible for 
their souls. So driven by this impression, 
they will boldly face anybody and tell him 
he is not right with God, and say the Lord 
laid it on me to tell you this. And no mat- 
ter what the approached will say, they will 
not give in. God told them so, and if they 
did not get dow r n and get right with God 
they would wake up with the rich man in 
hell. In this way many are led by them to 
the altar, without any conviction of wrong, 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 23 

but by the persistance of these folks are 
driven to doubt their experience and 
confess that they are deceived, cast their 
former experience all away, plunge into 
darkness and dispair, and have an awful 
time getting back to God again ; and when 
they do find God again will go on and tell 
how they were deceived by the devil, and if 
it had not been for Sister So and So, hell 
would have been their portion. We have 
noticed much of this kind of work in camp 
meetings. We have also noticed some cases 
where folks got discouraged, gave up in 
despair and backslide. Again, in some cases 
they hit it, and some sin is dug up, the per- 
son repents and gets to God and is saved. 
This then is taken as an evidence that their 
work is of God, for the devil would not 
uncover himself. But is not this the devil's 
way of doing his satanic work? He mixes 
enough truth to hide the error; enough 
truth to make it take, and enough error to 
kill ; that is the way to poison rats, enough 
meal to hide the poison and enough poison 
to kill the rat. 

Still Another. 
They will not take advise, nor obey re- 
buke. They are so sure that they are right 



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that they will take neither. They say the 
reason that you oppose them is because you 
don't understand these things, and they are 
so sure of this that to obey would bring sure 
defeat to the work of God. So firm are they 
that they would no doubt lay down their 
lives rather than give in that they are wrong. 
These are not all the symptoms by which 
fanaticism may be located, but if these will 
be observed it can be located every time; 
and if the accused will apply these tests to 
themselves they may know whether they are 
really of them or not. 



CHAPTER IV. 



The Cause of Fanaticism. 

Having explained the symptoms of fan- 
aticism, we will now explain the cause of it. 

The originating cause is the devil. It is 
one of his satanic plans to side-track God's 
people and defeat God's cause. But the 
devil can not do his work without an agent 
or instrument to work through. Ever since 
the Holy Ghost came into this world it has 
been the devil's delight to imitate him ; he 
can not imitate Jesus because Jesus had a 
body, a human form ; but the Holy Ghost 
being a person without a human body or 
visible form, it is very easy for the devil to 
come as an angel of light and imitate the 
voice and work of the Holy Ghost. Let us 
read together, "But what I do, that I will do, 
that I may cut off occasion from them which 
desire occasion ; that wherein they glory, 
they may be found even as we. For such 
are false apostles, deceitful workers, trans- 
forming themselves into the apostles of 
Christ. And no marvel, for satan himself 
is transformed into an angel of light. There- 
fore it is no great thing if his ministers, also, 



26 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

be transformed as the ministers of righteous- 
ness." 2 Cor. 2: 12-15. Again, "Now the 
Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter 
times some shall depart from the faith, giv- 
ing heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines 
of devils/ 1 etc. 1 Tim. 4:1. If these de- 
parted from the faith they must have been 
"to the faith" before they could depart from 
it. We have proved that fanaticism is "ex- 
cessive enthusiasm," "a going too far," a 
pushing over. This makes it clear that these 
folks were alright once, but were pushed 
over, went ahead of God, ahead of His Spirit 
and of His word. This is done by the devil 
coming as an angel of light, and in the same 
way ; with a voice like His, to get the ear of 
the listener, and thus accomplish his satanic 
deed. Uncle Sam has had much trouble 
with thieves that would counterfeit his large 
gold coins. It is done in a very cunning 
way. They take a very small bit and drill a 
small hole in the edge of the coin and drill 
out the inside, fill the space with some cheap 
metal, plug up the hole with the genuine and 
pass it on the public. The devil does his 
work much in the same way. A fanatic is 
a ruined saint; in many respects is just as 
he always was, but in other respects is a 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 27 

counterfeit. There are only three ways to 
test gold coins — first, by the ring; second, 
by the acid, and third, by weight. The com- 
mon people might never find any fault with 
the coin, but the banker is always on the 
lookout for the spurious. He throws the 
coin on the counter and the ring is not 
right, he compares it with another coin, but 
the ring is not genuine. He applies the 
acid; it stands the test alright. He next 
puts it on the scale. Ah ! there it is ; it is too 
light. The coin is closely examined and he 
sees a little hurt on the edge. The coin is 
cut in two and, behold ! the whole mystery 
is solved. The coin is ruined. These three 
tests can be applied, and should be applied 
to the doubtful — the ring, the acid and the 
weight. The shouts, hoots and yells of the 
fanatic have a brazen thud about them that 
does not sound like they used to. The charm 
is gone out of it : the music has left it ; it is 
much like a cracked bell ; something is the 
matter with it, but like the ruined coin, they 
will stand the acid test. Advice, rebuke, 
suspension, imprisonment, yea death will 
not color it. It will stand all that. But the 
third test, to weigh it with Bible truth, it 
will be found wanting. It will not stand the 



28 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

Bible test, and when, like the coin, the thing 
is split open, then the nasty work of the 
thief will be exposed. 

The devil hates the real Holy Ghost work, 
because it does his work too much harm ; 
but he can not overthrow it with the 
scourge, the sword ,or the torch. He tried 
all that and made a miserable failure of it. 
The more he persecuted the saints the faster 
they multiplied. So he turned himself over 
as an angel of light and ruins the workers 
of God and uses them to imitate, or to pro- 
duce counterfeit manifestations of the Holy 
Ghost, and in this way wrecks and ruins 
many precious saints and drags their souls 
to hell. Thus the devil is the originating 
cause of fanaticism. 

There could be no fanatics without a 
devil. But the devil is not alone to blame 
for this. He must have material, and he 
must have helpers. No one has ever thought 
of drilling out the inside of a copper, for it 
would not pay. This is only done to valu- 
able coins. The devil can not make a fan- 
atic out of a hike warm professor. He must 
have a spiritual person. Why so? Well, 
you can not push a person over the line 
before he gets to it. A person can not be an 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 29 

"excessive enthusiast" until he is an "enthu- 
siast." The box of a car wheel always gets 
warm before it gets hot. So a person can 
never go too far that has not gone far 
enough. A person has never gone far 
enough that is not filled with the Holy 
Ghost; for it is a common command of God. 
Hence fanatics are persons that once had 
good experiences in the things of God ; nor 
could the devil imitate the Holy Ghost and 
his work if they had no experience on this 
line, and again he could not use them in 

1 i: c work if they did not work on Holy 
Ghost lines and in Holy Ghost ways. 
The Next Cause is Ignorance. 

If a person is posted on these lines and 
will watch and pray the devil can not push 
him over, but the fact is that all fanatics 
are ignorant on fanaticism. They may be 
well posted on all other lines, but they can 
very seldom be convinced that they are 
fanatic even though they are well advanced 
in the craft. This shows that they are en- 
tirely ignorant of his satanic devices on this 
line ; and because of this he traps them in 
bis snare ; puts the halter of fanaticism upon 
them ; spoils their usefulness ; ruins their 
souls, and brings disgrace on the cause of 



30 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

Holiness. Ignorance then is the second 
cause of fanaticism. 

Spiritual Pride 
is no doubt another cause of fanaticism. It 
has been said that "very few people can 
stand prosperity/' and when persons are 
once filled w r ith the Holy Ghost and are used 
of God in the salvation of souls ; walk and 
talk with God, and begin to tell of their ex- 
periences, the people will admire and ap- 
plaud them, and want to hear them ; and the 
devil will come and whisper to them that 
they are somebody, and they will begin to 
feel good when they tell it, and next they 
tell it to feel good, and when they get some- 
thing new they tell it again, the people 
applaud again, they forget to keep humble, 
and the devil will sow a little seed of spirit- 
ual pride and self esteem in the heart ; it 
grows every time it gets a little sunshine or 
a little shower and there is a desire for more 
visions, dreams and voices, and more desire 
for the wonderful. It is here where the little 
weed is started. The devil takes advantage 
of the desire and gives a little at first, and a 
little more later on, unnoticed, until the 
Holy Ghost is driven out and the angel of 
light does the talking, and by and by takes 



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full possession. 

Deception is Another Cause. 

All fanatics are deceived persons, but they 
will not believe it even if you tell them so. 
They all believe that they have an advanced 
experience. The devil has palmed himself 
off on them as an angel of light and comes 
to them under the disguise of the Holy 
Ghost and meets with them in the closet 
every time they come, and the more they 
are pressed the more he convinces them of 
their success and of the great revival that is 
just at hand if they are true; he promises to 
give them the victory if they are true; hence 
all fanatics have much to say of "being true 
to God." They are all pledged to be true. 
This is the devil's trick and this pledge he 
takes of them again and again. They have 
so pledged themselves to be true to the 
voice which they believe is the Holy Ghost 
that they will not be convinced even by their 
best spiritual friends. They are so sure that 
they are not deceived, and see no other way 
but to be true to their convictions, no mat- 
ter what the cost. 

The writer has seen the day in which he 
said : "If this is not of God then there is no 
way to know what is of God and what is 



32 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

not." So sure was he that he said: "There 
is no way out. If this is not of God then he 
must become an infidel. He can not trust 
God and His word any more/' They are so 
deceived that very few ever get delivered. 

Some went on until they had so spoiled 
their usefulness that they had to be rebuked 
and suspended by the church. But the devil 
made them believe they were "the beloved 
of the Lord" and would receive a martyr's 
crown if they would be true to God and 
would not yield to men. 

But when the devil had them ruined for 
service and could vise them no more in thai 
way then he turned on them, left them in 
darkness and despair, so that some of them 
lost their mind and had to be taken into the 
asylum ; while others committed suicide or 
turned into rank infidels. We close this 
chapter by repeating that the first cause of 
fanaticism is "the devil," the second cause is 
"ignorance, the third cause is "spiritual 
pride," and the fourth cause is "deception." 
These four are the main causes of fanaticism. 
May the good Lord save my readers from all 
these satanic traps is the prayer of the 
author. 



CHAPTER V. 



How a Saint Becomes a Fanatic. 

We proved in Chapter IV. that none but a 
spiritual person can become a fanatic. We 
have never met a fanatic that did not have 
a good straight testimony on salvation and 
a good record of a holy life. We never 
found one that had any evidence about them 
of living in sin, or of wilfully practicing de- 
ception. All seemed to be good, honest, 
straight, big hearted souls, with humble ap- 
pearance and Bible attire. This proves that 
they have taken the way and said good-bye 
to the world, the flesh and the devil. 

Now, a person can never reach this place 
in his or her experiences, but by the grace 
of God and perfect obedience in a full con- 
secration and faith ; neither can he keep it 
on any other terms; and in addition to this 
much prayer, fasting, and waiting on 
God is needed. God is so pleased with a 
person that comes often to the throne of 
grace, stays long and asks largely that he 
sends him away well loaded with blessings. 
This becomes such a delight to us that we 



34 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

go oftener and stay longer. Now, we know 
out of experience that God talks to men, not 
only by convictions or impressions, but by 
His voice. The writer has had a vision 
in which he saw his Savior face to face. We 
have had dreams and answers to prayer that 
were simply wonderful. We have had soul 
burdens and have been under the power oi 
the Holy Spirit. We know these things are 
true, real, and of God ; but we have 
never felt lifted up, or in other words, felt 
that we were especially favored above our 
fellows on account of these, but rather 
humbled by them, because they came in 
times of great distress and were used of 
God to help us out of deep waters and great 
sorrows. And while the thought of these 
brings great comfort to our soul, yet there 
is also a deep solemnity with it that makes 
us feel very humble to think that the 
Almighty took such pains to give us such 
comfort in these trying hours. But we have 
noticed that all the fanatics we have studied 
have had this kind of experiences, and many 
more of them than we had, and they all take 
great delight in telling them ; they generally 
say "the Lord wants me to tell you some 
things about my visions" or "experience. " 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 35 

Now, we often noticed that many of these 
experiences have nothing in them for any 
one, but for themselves ; but the relating of 
them leaves the impression that they have 
an advanced Christian experience and are 
wonderfully favored of God and are his 
trusted ones to whom He can reveal His 
secrets and bestow His special favors. 

Pride was no doubt the cause of satan's 
fall, and spiritual pride is one of satan's trap 
doors to gain admission into the sanctified 
heart. Very few people can stand prosperity 
on any line. History tells us that 
most of the men or women that were 
much favored of God with success 
in experience, or work did not stand 
any length of time. The same is true of 
churches ,schools and movements. Spiritual 
pride crept in and spoiled them for useful- 
ness. Satan is very cunning, and especially 
so when he wants to ruin the usefulness of a 
saint of God. He likes to have folks tell 
these wonderful things in public and from 
the platform he knows the people admire it 
and that they will talk about the speaker 
and his wonderful experience, and answers 
to prayer ; and in this way he will get even 
good people to help him laud these saints, 



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honor them and push them ahead until they 
began to feel quite important themselves; 
thus by urging them to tell it ,then urging 
the people to applaud them they will little 
by little be filled with spiritual pride. Hav- 
ing accomplished this, his next step is to 
appear to them as an angel of light and 
imitate the voice of the Holy Ghost. He 
usually tells them they are his and he has a 
great work for them to do, but they must 
be true to God. He knows that loyalty to 
God is an absolute necessity for a saint to 
be useful in his service. This point is 
pressed again and again, hence all fanatics 
have much to say about being true to God. 
The Holy Spirit is grieved away by the 
spiritual pride that has crept in ; the devil 
has now a good chance to imitate him. This 
he does so successfully that a person that is 
not taught on these lines is not aware that it 
is satan that is working on him. He takes 
the pledge of loyalty and then gives them 
false demonstrations, and wonderful experi- 
ences, and then prompts them to tell it in 
public and then prompts the public to talk 
about these wonderful persons, and preach- 
ers will quote them from the platform, 
friends will land them. They are pressed 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 37 

into service, tell more of their experiences, 
fall under the power, are both feared and 
honored almost like angels. Of course all 
this is done ignorantly, but satan does his 
work just the same. Manifestations are 
multiplied, wonderful things happen. They 
become ring leaders, next thing to a spirit- 
ualist medium. They are the central figures ; 
are looked up to by pulpit and pew. They 
are now just what satan wants them to be to 
work havoc in the holiness ranks. 



CHAPTER VI. 
Satanic Demonstrations. 

Demonstrations such as soul burden, slay- 
ing, or falling under the power are not found 
among any but a spiritual people and in a 
spiritual meeting; hence the devil knows just 
where to send his fanatics to operate. It is 
not generally known that there are satanic 
demonstrations and hence most everybody 
will naturally ascribe all demonstrations to 
the Holy Ghost power. The fanatics are 
most all altar workers and having gained 
the confidence of the people by telling their 
wonderful experiences and answers to prayer 
they are given a prominent place at the 
altar. It will not be long before they will 
fall under a power, supposed by everybody 
to be the Holy Ghost. Most everybody 
draws a long breath and quits praying, gets 
his eyes off of God and is watching the 
process. The slain may be quiet for a while, 
but will begin to groan and twist as though 
they were in pain, and finally say, tell them 
(the seekers at the altar) to pray : usually 
one or more will go and tell the seeker to 
pray. She is urged to pray and to obey, 
but everybody has his eyes off of God by 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 39 

this time and satan has full play. The battle 
gets hotter, the pain seems to be greater. 
Oh, tell her to pray ; she must pray ; every- 
body pray; but somehow the atmosphere is 
thick and heavy ; no one can pray much ; 
the seeker don't seem to have any spirit of 
prayer. The burden increases ; the fanatic 
gets loud, rolls and twists; several will get 
around the seeker and drive her. "You 
must pray/' "you must obey God/' the 
fanatic screams, screeches and yells as 
though she was in the torrents of hell. Very 
often the second and third will go down 
and the scene becomes wild beyond discrip- 
tion. The cries and screams become deafen- 
ing, the curiosity of the congregation gets 
aroused ; they will leave their seats amid 
the protests of the janitors, crowd around 
the slain, become unruly, become disgusted, 
say hard things, threaten violence, loose 
respect for the entire outfit; will howl, yell, 
cut ropes, throw missiles and do everything 
they can to break the meeting up, finally 
leave at a late hour a hissing, howling, dis- 
gusted mob. In the meantime the struggle 
at the altar continues, others fall in the 
straw and for hours this process continues 
until at last the seeker is so worn out and 



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so tired that in a formal way will begin to 
confess, pray and raise his hands. The spell 
is broken, the slain become quiet; they say 
the work is done. The seeker feels such a 
relief when he gets out of this trap that he 
really believes he is saved, but he is not, for 
he usually backslides before he gets off of 
the camp ground, and will have to be taken 
through the same process again. We have 
seen this process gone over two or three 
times with the same person at the same 
camp meeting and then did not stand long. 
The mob comes back the next night, will 
behave w r ell during the preaching, but when 
the performance at the altar begins will do 
the same things as the night before. You 
raise your voice against this and you are 
told by these fanatics that you are back- 
slidden, and for that reason do not under- 
stand these things, and they will ask you to 
go to the altar, where you belong. "But 
thank God," we have by His help caught on 
to some of his satanic tricks on these lines, 
and by the help of God we expect to expose 
him and help these dear, precious souls to 
know his satanic devices, defeat him, and 
get them back to God where He can use 
them again to His glory. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Holy Ghost Demonstrations. 

We have stated that the devil makes coun- 
terfeits out of God's true saints and then 
uses them to counterfeit or imitate the work 
of the Holy Ghost. Now, if there were no 
real Holy Ghost demonstration there could 
be no counterfeit, and there would be no 
standard by which to test them; but there 
is a real Holy Ghost work on these lines ; 
there is a Holy Ghost given burden for 
souls ; there is a Holy Ghost slaying power, 
and most of these fanatical persons had 
them in days gone by, but the demonstra- 
tions they have now and those in former 
days are not alike. We know of some that 
used to fall and were still, stiff, and cold as 
soon as they dropped, and would not utter a 
sound, move a muscle for two or three hours, 
when they would come out with great joy 
and victory, with no visible connection with 
any seeker at the altar whatever. The mul- 
titude would be quiet; a deep hush would 
be upon them ; conviction would be upon 
the people, and victory would be on the side 
of God's people. The meeting would close 



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quietly; the folks would say we have seen 
strange things tonight; the seekers at the 
altar would come out clear and bright, and 
often did not know that anyone was slain 
until told. God got the glory. But later 
these very persons had the kind described 
in Chapter VI., every time they fell, and 
the results as described there followed. 

We have in our mind a person now whom 
we have known for a number of years. She 
used to fall and lay quiet, apparently un- 
conscious of her surroundings; would not 
speak a word unless it was praising the 
Lord about the time she was coming out of 
the power. Now every time she falls she 
screams, barks and makes heineous noises, 
talks to those around her, gives messages 
which she says are from the Lord, gives 
orders to the seekers while she lays helpless 
and apparently in great pain and agony. 
When she used to lay quiet her demonstra- 
tion used to bring conviction on the un- 
saved ; the crowd would be quiet and serious, 
but now it is different, entirely different. 

We know of another sister that used to 
fall and lay stiff and perfectly quiet for from 
one to two hours, and when she would come 
out she was so filled with glory that she 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 43 

could hardly live. The congregation would 
sit quietly for two hours and wait to see her 
come too, and it would always produce deep 
conviction. This same sister afterwards 
was changed in her demonstrations to such 
a degree that she brought much disgrace on 
the cause, and the masses became so unruly 
that the city police force had to protect us 
from violence. The masses were disgusted 
and went into a riot. 

Holy Ghost Demonstrations 
in soul burdens as a rule (if not always) are 
quiet; the body is stiff and cold; the person 
can not be awakened or brought to by man 
or medicine. It is God's work and neither 
man nor devil can defeat it. You may carry 
them out of the tent or dismiss the meeting, 
but you can not change matters. The case 
will bear investigation by the medical men ; 
it is past finding out; it is of God. It will 
produce conviction on the unsaved : will 
bring victory into the camp ; defeat the 
devil ; please the angels, and glorify God. 

Satanic Demonstrated Persons 
are usually limber, noisy, struggling, wild, 
and sometimes wear distorted features, and 
act as mediums for the seekers, get mes- 
sages and give orders. They can be 



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awakened, brought to consciousness and de- 
feated. To take the seeker away breaks the 
spell, or to carry the person out breaks the 
connection. They say you grieved the spirit 
and defeated God's work. The spell can be 
broken by the prayers of the saints if they 
know it to be of the devil, and pray in faith. 
Satanic demonstrations divide the saints, 
grieve the spirit, drive conviction away, dis- 
gust the honest thinking people, and enrages 
the masses into a howling mob. 

Holy Ghost Demonstrations 
will unite the saints, please the Spirit, pro- 
duce conviction, convince the honest think- 
ing people, arrest the rabble, defeat the devil, 
and bring glory to God. Lord, give us more 
of this kind ; we love it ; we welcome it ; 
we will stand by it. Send it. Lord ; send it. 
Amen! ^ 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Satanic Conviction. 

It may not be generally believed that there 
is such a thing as satanic conviction; but 
unbelief does not change a fact. We can 
convince every thinking person of this fact. 
Bible conviction is produced by the Holy 
Ghost, either through the reading or hearing' 
of the word of God, or by seeing its results 
in the life of others. No one ever gets Bible 
conviction without a knowledge of Bible 
truth. The Holy Ghost takes Bible truths 
and applies it to the awakened conscience ; 
the person sees his sins of the past, the con- 
dition of his heart, the inevitable doom of 
his soul. The same Holy Ghost also reveals 
the remedy or the way of salvation to the 
awakened soul. A revelation of himself and 
his doom causes sorrow for, and a perfect 
abhorance of sin ; and as a result he turns 
away from it and seeks relief in God and in 
His word. He need not be coaxed 
to come to the altar when under real Holy 
Ghost conviction, nor coaxed to pray when 
he is there. David said, "The sorrows of 
death compossed me, and the pains of hell 



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got hold upon me, I found trouble and sor- 
row ; then called I upon the Lord." Psa. 
1 1 6 : 3-4. This is a natural result of Holy 
Ghost conviction. Satanic convictions are 
produced by fanatical persons, not through 
the word of God, but through the words of 
these persons. The devil demonstrates them 
in order to get the confidence of the people ; 
he does this by imitating the work of the 
Holy Ghost. The devil must work along 
the same line that God works, or he would 
be detected. He could not get folks to the 
altar if he could not make them fee! that 
they ought to go, and he could not carry on 
his work at the altar unless he had some 
seekers there. 

Now then, what is the difference? Well, 
Bible conviction is a knowledge of and 
Godly sorrow for sins committed ; satanic 
conviction is an excited state of mind with- 
out any real sorrow for sins committed. The 
first is produced by the Holy Ghost apply- 
ing the word of God ; the second is produced 
by human persuasion, or by the screams 
and groans of the demonstrated (generally 
both.) The first is the work of the Holy 
Ghost on the heart; the second is the work 
of the devil on the mind only. The first has 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 47 

his mind and eyes on God and His word ; 
the second has his mind and eyes on the 
fanatic. The first must hear from God to 
satisfy him, but the second is satisfied if the 
groans and cries cease and the fanatics say 
"Peace." The first is converted to God; the 
second to the fanatic. The first is likely to 
stand; the second must be worked over 
again, often at the next altar service and 
sometimes three or four times in the same 
camp meeting. In the first case God gets 
all the glory; in the second case the fanatic 
gets it. Strange as it may seem, but it is 
true that all fanatics have great delight in 
altar service and because of their extreme 
views on dressing, eating, and living, etc., 
feel persuaded that because other folks don't 
see eye to eye with them, have either back- 
slidden or have never been saved; hence 
they are always on the lookout for such at 
all spiritual meetings. Where the whole 
gospel is preached, many truly saved souls 
get new light on certain lines and instead of 
accepting the light and walking in it they 
run to the altar ; and because their is no 
guilt there is no conviction. These are sure 
game for the fanatics. They are told that 
they are not right and are told to confess, 



48 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

and are pressed hard to confess, they begin 
to doubt and believe the fanatic is right. 
The fanatic falls over and the war is on, the 
struggle is on sometimes for hours. They 
are cornered and made to believe they were 
never saved. They plunge into fearful dark- 
ness; the spirit is grieved; the devil helps 
the job. They are down not because the 
Holy Ghost convicted them, but because the 
fanatic told them they were not right. We 
have noticed a number of such cases, some 
of them went into extremes for a while, but 
finally saw their mistake and found their 
level again and came back to God, wiser 
saints. The writer himself had fallen a vic- 
tim to this snare, made shipwreck of his 
faith, brought himself into great darkness 
and distress, brought much trouble into his 
church and disgrace upon the Holiness 
work. 

My dear reader, if you are convinced that 
a person is not right with God, it is safer for 
you and safer for him to go and pray him 
under conviction in secret, unless you see 
him or hear him commit sin. 

We believe a person that is under real 
Bible conviction is like a fish that has a hook 
in his jaw. "He is a goner/' and without 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 49 

any human help whatever can find God and 
a good case of salvation. They will usually 
dig through to God and will get an experi- 
ence that spoils them for the world, but 
prepares for the service of God. Such per- 
sons need not be put under laws and discip- 
line, light on the word is all they need to 
make Bible Christians of them. They, like 
sheep, are easy to handle; their shepherd 
don't need to follow them with a dog and 
dog them to duty. All he needs is to take 
the lead and his flock will follow him in 
every Bible track. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Satanic Conversions. 
We have reasons to believe that there are 
many of these, even in our Holy Ghost meet- 
ings. With satanic conviction and fanatical 
altar workers what else could be expected. 
In many meetings the devil works on the 
other line; he gets people to sign a card, or 
come forward and give the preacher his 
hand, or even join the church, form good 
resolutions, and do the best he can. This 
works very well in a cold, formal church or 
camp meeting, but this would not do in a 
Holiness camp meeting or in a Holiness 
church. The only way then is to imitate 
the Holy Ghost. Satanic conversions will 
produce satanic results. Such persons will 
soon show their hoofs and horns ; they have 
not the humble submission spirit of Jesus ; 
the world will have a powerful attraction for 
them, and no matter what they say in their 
testimony to the contrary, everybody can 
see that they are worldly minded. Their 
service is formal. There is either a human 
rattle or a human quietness. The smooth, 
musical, oily service is not there. There 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 51 

will be much for show and for effect, or a 
shrinking do-nothing spirit. They will 
either be bound by the fear of man, or con- 
trolled by the spirit of man, and generally 
all they seem to have will soon blow over. 
There is no stability with them ; they have 
not the genuine article; they are not born 
of God ; their conversion is satanic. 



CHAPTER X. 



Personal Observations. 

Case No. i — In the month of August, 1891, 
the writer entered the pulpit the first time 
to preach. In the month of January, 1892, 
my wife and I opened our first protracted 
meeting in the Weaver school house in Cat- 
lin township, Marion county, Kansas. The 
Lord was with us and gave us many souls, 
many were sanctified. Twelve miles from 
this school house there was another pro- 
tracted meeting in progress. In this meet- 
ing there was a young man by the name of 

B who would fall under a power and 

would call the unsaved by name to come 
forward and kneel by his side. He would 
ask someone to pray, and as he prayed he 
said he could see the light come to them 
and their sins would vanish away like a 
cloud and he would say they are all right 
now and would ask them to get up and tes- 
tify. Then he would call for another in the 
same way. He seemed to know who was 
present and seemed to know all about those 
who came forward, so that he would tell 
them what they had to do before they could 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 53 

get right. Sometimes make confessions and 
sometimes make restitution. He never 
missed it. The result of this was that the 
entire community was stirred up and almost 
all the young people were called up and 
taken through, as they called it, and pro- 
fessed to be saved. When the community 
was well swept over they brought him to 
our meeting, twelve or fifteen of his so-called 
converts coming with him. After preaching 
we gave the altar call. Several seekers came 
forward. We invited the Christian to come 

forward, but this Brother B would not 

come. Some of his friends went to him, but 
he would not come forward. We went to 
prayer, some souls found victory, a good 
testimony meeting followed, but most of 

these strangers told how Brother B 

brought them through. These testimonies 
made us suspicious. After we came home 
that night we asked the good Lord to pro- 
tect us from anything and everybody that 
would hurt us, or our meeting, which was 
then at its best. In an afternoon prayer 
meeting a few days later these dear young 

people £Ot around this Brother B and 

just plead with the Lord to put His spirit 
upon him so he could take people through 



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like he did in their meeting. By and by he 
rolled over and they layed him upon a couch 
and one man hunted around for a pencil and 

tablet to write down what Brother B 

said. The prayer meeting was broken up 

and all crowded around Brother B to 

see who he would call up first. My soul 
was grieved. We asked permission to go up 
stairs to pray. As I lay upon my face and 
cried to God for help, he showed me that 
the thing was of the devil. I hastened down 
and called the attention of the people and 
said this thing is of the devil ; come away 
and let him alone. Some said I was sinning 
against the Holy Ghost, be careful, be care- 
ful ; but the spell was broken. The young- 
man sat up and called me a sinner. I said, if 
your work is of God and mine is of the devil 
then the devil defeated God. I had gained 
the victory. The people saw it. Then I 
said .either take your man home or bring 
him to the altar and let us pray for him as a 
sinner. They took him home. He went to 
the bad in a short time, and the people saw 
the delusion, and instead of a great service 
in that community for God, it was one for 
the devil. Our meeting went right on with- 
out a jar until the close. This was our first 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 55 

experience with satanic demonstrations. 

Case No. 2 — In the following year and in 
the same school yard we conducted a meet- 
ing in a large tent. A sister by the name of 

W fell under the power almost every 

time she came to the meeting. She was stiff, 
pale, and cold, and lay as still as death for 
from one to three hours. During this time 
we usually had song service or testimony 
meetings, and sometimes several altar ser- 
vices. Deep conviction was on the people 
and the congregation of from 300 to 800 
people were orderly and patient, waiting to 

see Sister W come out. She would 

always come out with the word glory, and 
she would sing a new song every time, new 
words and new music. I shall never forget 
how heaven used to come down in that tent ; 
often sinners would run to the altar and get 
saved. The father of this young lady was 
unsaved and a very wicked man, and said 
that we mesmerized his daughter, and that 
he would look this thing up. He came with 
his four sons (all young men) on his spring 
wagon, with his revolver in his pocket and in 
great rage. They picked the young lady up, 
carried her out and layed her in the spring 
wagon like a post. He sent one of his sons 



56 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

to the city for the two best doctors to come 

immediately and they would see this thing 
through. The doctors were both by her 
bedside by eleven o'clock and labored with 
her until four o'clock in the morning, just 
five hours, with no effect whatever. They 
finally said she had lockjaw and would never 
come to. The doctors left. The family stood 
weeping by her bedside waiting for the end. 
The neighbors and friends were discussing 
the matter as to what they would do to us 
as soon as she had breathed her last, but at 
four o'clock the next day, just sixteen hours 
from the time they carried her out of the 
tent, she came to, said glory, and soon began 
to sing her new song. She leaped ouc of bed, 
went through the house praising God, but 
the house being too small for her, she ran 
out doors barefooted and in her night gown, 
jumped and shouted all over the premises, 
while father and mother, brothers and sis- 
ters stood looking on with tears streaming 
down their cheeks. The neighbors and 
friends were ashamed of themselves for the 
hard things they had said against us. The 
doctors refused to talk about that case. 

Sister W was allowed to come to the 

meeting and the Lord layed her out as be- 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 57 

fore and no one meddled with her case. The 
work was of God, and man could not defeat 
it. That father was gloriously saved on his 
sickbed, died, and is, no doubt, in glory. 

Case No. 3 — At a certain camp meeting 
the writer was called at four o'clock in the 
morning to come to the tabernacle by a 
brother who was crying, and said : "Oh, 

Brother K , come over to the tabernacle 

and see the mighty power of God." We re- 
fused to go at first, knowing what it was, 
but after prayer we felt we ought to go, so 
we arose and dressed quickly and went over 
to the tabernacle. The meeting had gone on 
all night. There were nine persons slain, 
about fifteen persons on their knees praying, 
some crying and pleading for God to have 
mercy on the one seeker, a man who was 
at the altar from about nine o'clock in the 
evening (seven hours.) Three or four per- 
sons were urging him to confess and obey 
God. One of the slain could talk, and she 
would tell the rest what to do and what to 
tell the seeker at the altar. Thus they got 
messages from this slain person and deliv- 
ered them to this seeker. Everybody seemed 
to be wrought up to the highest pitch ; oh, 
such a sight. I shall never forget it. Word 



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was soon taken to the sister that was giving 
the messages that I had come. She said, 
"Brother Kauffman, come here; I want to 
speak to you." I said, "No, I won't; you 
just speak to me where I am, I can hear 
you." She said, "This is of God; don't you 
oppose it." Just then someone said, "We 
must pray." So all went to their knees, but 
I remained standing with my hat in my 
hand watching the scene. A dear brother 
came to me and asked me to get down on 
my knees and pray. Soon a dear sister 
came to me and warned me not to touch the 
Lord's work. "This is of God." They asked 
me to get down and pray if I did not under- 
stand this, but I said nothing until the pray- 
ing ceased. Then I told the seeker at the 
altar to get up and take his seat. He did so 
immediately. "Oh, he will be lost ; he will 
be lost forever ; this is his last chance ; he 
must be saved now or lost forever." I said 
nothing, but the slain began to come to and 
one after the other got up. I said, kindly, 
"You folks got your eyes off of the Lord 
and on that sister. I saw five of you go 
there for messages and take them to thai 
seeker. Why not go to Jesus and get your 
messages from him?" And while I was 



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speaking the power left them and in less than 
ten minutes they were all up except this one 
sister. I told her to get up, too; that the 
power had left her. I then told them to take 
their seats and I would explain the whole 
matter to them, and I believe almost every 
one acknowledged their mistake and gave 
God the glory. 

Another Case — At another time we car- 
ried a sister to her tent ,knowing it was not 
of God, and the rabble was unmanageable, 
but by the time we came back to the taber- 
nacle, she came running back crying, "They 
don't understand it; they don't understand 
it." We stood at the opening of the taber- 
nacle and did not let her in ; so she fell back- 
wards on the ground. A few good sisters 
went to her and persuaded her that we were 
right. The spell was broken, the devil de- 
feated, and the sister walked back to her 
tent. 

More Cases — We shall mention some more 
cases to prove that all apparent soul bur- 
dens are not of God. A brother whom we 

shall call Brother A fell under some 

power at a camp meeting on Saturday night ; 
suffered the most awful pains ; screamed and 
rolled in the straw the whole niq-ht. Toward 



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morning he confessed that he was not sanc- 
tified, and he won the victory early in the 
morning, shouted and preached nearly all 
day Sunday. He was the central figure at 
the camp meeting. Two years later at an- 
other camp meeting the Holy Ghost got hold 
of this brother and he called a few of us to 
his tent and made some awful confessions of 
lying, stealing, and deception, which he was 
practicing before and after that night. It is 
clear to me now that the entire job was of 
the devil and not of the Holy Ghost. 

Another case, which we shall call Miss 

B , a member of my class, would fall 

under a power and scream and say they are 
going to hell. Folks would get up and leave 
the church ; they would say they can't stand 
her cries ; but we thought it was of God and 
endorsed it. This same person afterward 
confessed that by the request of her parents 
she set their house on fire to get the insur- 
ance money. She kept this in her heart and 
professed holiness over the top of it. She 
afterwards confessed to having lived a life 
of immorality and shame while confessing 
Holiness. 

Still another, whom we shall call Miss 
C , often fell in our meetings, and we 



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thought it was of God and was alright, but 
at a camp meeting she fell and the writer 
felt that he was to go and tell her to get up, 
but fearing it was a w T rong impression, did 
not go. A sister went to her and told her to 
get up, and she got up immediately. Two 
days later we had to ship this woman off 
from the camp ground because of immoral 
conduct. She was guilty at the time she fell. 
We could multiply cases of spurious 
demonstrations that came under our obser- 
vation, but the above are sufficient to prove 
that demonstrations are not all of God, but 
may be so successfully produced by satanic 
power that human skill can not detect it in 
all cases. But God has promised to give 
wisdom to them that lack, for the asking, 
and especially to those whom He has chosen 
to shepherd His sheep. 



CHAPTER XI. 



Discerning of Spirits. 

Inspiration gives us the human body as a 
type of the church of Jesus Christ. "For as 
the body is one and has many members, and 
all the members of that one body, being 
many are one body ; so also is Christ/' 
i Cor. 12 : 12. "If the foot shall say, because 
I am not the hand, I am not of the body ; is 
it therefore not of the body? And if the ear 
shall say, because I am not the eye, I am 
not of the body; is it therefore not of the 
body? If the whole body were an eye, 
where were the hearing? If the whole were 
hearing, where were the smelling? But now 
hath God set the members, every one of 
them in the body, as it hath pleased Him, 
* * * and the eye can not say unto the 
hand, 'I have no need of thee' ; nor again the 
head to the feet, 'I have no need of thee/ ' 
i Cor. 12: 15 to 21. 

In this chapter we have the number of 
the gifts of the Spirit, which are nine. Let 
us read : "Now there are diversities of gifts, 
but the same Spirit, and there are differences 
of administrations but the same Lord. And 



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there are diversities of opperations, but it is 
the same God, Which worketh in all. But 
the manifestation of the Spirit is given to 
every man to profit withal. For to one is 
given by the Spirit the word of wisdom ; 
to another the word of knowledge by the 
same Spirit; to another faith by the same 
Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the 
same Spirit; to another the working of 
miracles; to another prophesy; to another 
discerning of spirits ; to another divers kinds 
of tongues; to another interpretation of 
tongues/' i Cor. 12: 4-12. If the "discern- 
ing of spirits" is one of the members of the 
body, then the body is not complete (or 
crippled), it is not able to do as good work 
and as much of it as it would be if it was 
complete ; so it is with the church. She is 
not complete without she has the nine gifts 
of the Spirit, and if not complete ,then she 
is not at her best for service. And if she 
lacks the gift of "discerning of spirits" then 
the evil spirits can and will do their evil 
work unrebuked, and often bring defeat to 
the children of God, and disgrace on the 
cause of Christ. It is not necessary that 
every Christian should have this gift of 
"discerning of spirits" no more so than it 



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would be for every one to have the gift of 
wisdom, or the gift of knowledge. For if 
one has a gift he can teach others. For in- 
stance, a person that has knowledge can 
educate others ; a person that has faith can 
inspire others ; a person that has wisdom can 
plan for and give advice to others. And in 
the same way a person that has the gift of 
"discerning of spirits" can teach a whole 
camp meeting and defeat the devil in his 
satanic devices and be a protection to his 
brethren and a help to the cause of Christ. 

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try 
the spirits, whether they be of God." i John 
4: 1. 



CHAPTER XII. 
The Cure of Fanaticism. 
This is no doubt the hardest part of our 
undertaking. Satan has so successfully 
passed himself off on these poor deluded 
souls as an angel of light that it is next to 
impossible for them to believe anything 
different. And again these precious souls 
are such good instruments in the devil's 
hands that he is very lothe to give them up. 
Hence when they go to their prayer closet to 
ask council of God in regard to this matter 
this same angel of light presents himself 
and tells them to stand firm and be true to 
their vow. He tells them that "they that 
will live Godly in Chrsit Jesus must suffer 
persecution;" that Jesus himself was mis- 
understood by his nearest and dearest 
friends ; that the preachers, presiding elders, 
and even the bishops of his day did not 
understand Him, nor know Him, and be- 
cause of this they crucified Him ; and he will 
point out many precious promises in the 
word of God and tell them that this is the 
way to win the martyr's crown, and just as 
likely as not will throw them into another 



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spell and give them a vision of something 
beautiful and let them hear a voice with 
some promise in it for the faithful, and in 
this way they are prepared to endure with 
joy most anything, because they believe it is 
of God, and to His glory. 

Law and Discipline 
will not cure, nor even be of any help, but 
will only make them worse. All fanatical 
persons have passed that point where they 
fear man; they care absolutely nothing for 
human authority, whether it is church or 
state; neither the police nor the highest 
church official has any more influence over 
them than other persons ; to go to jail would 
rather please them ; to be expelled from 
church, or to have the church doors closed 
against them is only a sure sign that they 
are in the right. By this time they know 
almost every promise in the Bible for the 
persecuted; they actually get to the place 
where they love to bear reproach for his 
(supposed) sake. Oh, it is wonderful how 
deluded a person can become on these lines. 
But it is true, for we have gone through all 
this ourselves. Another strange thing is : 
Fanatical persons will not study any article 
in a book or paper with profit on the subject 



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of fanaticism. They actually think they 
know more of God and salvation than most 
everybody else does, and because of this they 
think these writers write about something 
they know very little of, and if they should 
go into their closet to find out, the (sup- 
posed) Holy Ghost would tell them to let 
that book alone. These men do not under- 
stand. One of the persons whom I had to 
rebuke told me that while she was in 
her closet on her knees, praying for me, the 
Lord told her that "Brother Kauffman was 
one of His men, and was alright, but, he does 
not understand this/' This fortified the 
sister against me, and my efforts to help her 
back to God. She believes it was God that 
told her those words, but I believe it was 
the devil. But of course this dear soul does 
not believe that she is so fanatical that she 
does not know the voice of God from the 
voice of the devil, and the idea is ridiculous 
to her. But why are these folks so sure they 
are right? The answer is twofold. First, 
they know that they are not living in sin as 
far as actual transgressions are concerned ; 
and, second, they believe that they have com- 
munications with God. This makes them 
feel doubly safe and secure. 



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How Can Such Be Cured? 

The fact is, very few ever do get cured. 
Most of them backslide sooner or later; 
some go to the insane asylum, and some to 
a suicide's grave. The only remedy is love 
— perfect love. This is the only remedy for 
fanaticism. It will not always cure, but it 
is the only thing that will cure. If we really 
love these precious souls we will pray much 
for them, and if we do, we will deal very 
kindly with them, and we will bear long and 
be patient and deal very gently with them. 
If we keep in mind that these dear souls are 
deceived we will do this. After a fanatic 
has been proven to be such, their friends 
and stand-bys will generally become few; 
they will feel the cold shoulder on every 
side; friends will forsake them; rebuke will 
be felt keenly; doors will be closed against 
them ; calls will be few, opportunities less ; 
liberties even for testimony will be shut off 
sometimes; they can not help feeling that 
they are not wanted at the altar services; 
folks won't say amen to their testimonies as 
they used to; the burden becomes heavy; 
the yoke is galling; the cross great; the 
'God bless you's" are not very plenty; folks 
shake hands quickly and loosely; nobody 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 6U 

seems to care. "She is a fanatic," is heard 
often. These words go like daggers to the 
heart. Love at such a time is a precious 
article (we are now speaking from experi- 
ence.) At this time a person will realize 
that "the greatest of these is love." i Cor. 
13 : 13. Satan has accomplished his purpose; 
he has ruined the usefulness of a worker, 
put a soul into misery, if not into hell. 

This is the time to cure a fanatic ; love at 
this time is a very scarce article. If some 
person will go and pray with them and have 
a real open hearted talk with them on the 
subject; convince them that you love them; 
repeat the visit again and again; give them 
light as the Lord gives it to you, (not any 
faster.) There is some hope that they may 
be convinced that it is the devil that has 
wrought their ruin. If this point can be 
gained then the case is won; the devil will 
be defeated, because prayer can then be 
united with the deceived and they will be 
rescued. Oh ! bless God, it is possible, glori- 
ously possible. My Lord, help us to detect 
him, expose him, defeat him, whenever he 
comes as an angel of light. Help us, Lord, 
to sound the alarm, warn the saints, protect 
the weak, teach everybody and thus defeat 



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the devil and preserve the real Holy Ghost 
work. 

CHAPTER XIII. 



A Word to the Accused. 

One of the never failing symptoms of a 
person that has consumption is the disbelief 
that they have consumption, and so it is 
with the fanatic. The devil has so cunningly 
and yet so successfully passed himself upon 
you as an angel of light and his voice as the 
voice of the Holy Ghost, and has so blind- 
folded you that you can not see in yourself 
and in your actions what other folks see. 
Now, one of the first things to which we 
want to call your attention is the unfulfilled 
promises of the voice (which you claim was 
God's) made to you. How often that voice 
told you of the mighty works the Lord is 
going to do for you, and for your family, or 
in your church, or in your town, and often 
in this meeting. And that voice always told 
you these things should come to pass pro- 
viding you would be true to him and to your 
vow. I have often noticed this and then 
watched to see if they would come true, and 
they failed to come to pass. 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 71 

Now, the question is, "Were you true to 
your promise ?" Answer, "Yes." "And did 
the promised revival come?" Answer, "No." 
Well, then either you were not true, or the 
voice was not of God. Now, don't you see 
that these things don't come to pass ? If you 
don't, other folks do. How often we heard 
this at the camp meeting: "The Lord told 
me that if we were true to Him, we should 
see a mighty outpouring of His spirit at 
this camp meeting." Well, we were true, 
but nothing unusual happened. Did the 
sister confess her mistake? Answer, No. 
A person told me that the Lord has shown 
her that we should have a mighty revival 
in a certain town if we were true. Well, we 
were true, but the mighty revival never 
came. Did she confess her mistake? No. 
Another sister told me that the Lord showed 
her that if I would quit using medicine He 
would heal me. I obeyed, but was not 
healed. She afterwards told me that she 
got the evidence from God that I would be 
healed at a time when I was anointed, but it 
did not come to pass. Afterwards she said 
the Lord told her if I would quit eating 
pork He would heal me. I quit immediately, 
but no healing came. Has this sister 



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acknowledged her mistake? Answer, No. 
I quote this to show the inconsistency of 
this voice being God's, for it is impossible for 
God to lie ; but it is so natural for the devil 
to lie that he won't tell the truth unless a 
lie won't fit. 

Again, dearly beloved, do you realize that 
the voice that you hear in the closet is more 
precious to you and more authoritative than 
your Bible? I mean, you would rather have 
what you believe is a "thus saith the Lord" 
in the closet, than read a "thus saith the 
Lord" in your Bible? 

This alone ought to convince you that 
you are under the influence of a wrong 
spirit. Again, when you are under the bur- 
den for a soul, and you get the witness that 
that soul is saved, and that soul believes 
you, and he says so, and at the next altar 
service he comes back and you go under the 
burden again for him. and go through the 
process again for him, can't you see that that 
spirit that told you he was saved lied to 
you? And don't you see that you also told 
a He when you said he was saved and then 
go over the same process again? If you 
don't see this some other folks do. It is an 
insult to the Holy Ghost to accept such 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 73 

work as from him. You ought to publicly 
confess that you were deceived, or made a 
mistake in saying he was saved when he was 
not. But fanatics very seldom confess mis- 
takes, because it would uncover the whole 
thing and expose satan's tricks. 
A Word of Advice. 
Now, if you really want to be sure that 
you are right and that your accusers are in 
the wrong, please study your actions and 
impressions on these lives and see if you 
ever made a mistake. Remember the Holy 
Ghost never makes mistakes, but the devil 
often does. Now, if you find any mistakes, 
confess them immediately before God and 
men, and as fast as you find any mistakes 
confess them at once, and you will be sur- 
prised to see how many you have made. In 
this way you will honor God and defeat the 
devil and the Holy Ghost will help you to 
put this yoke off that is so galling. 
Remember wrongs must be confessed before 
they can be forgiven. The devil must be 
acknowledged before he can be cast out. 
Weigh your past experiences with the word 
of God, and if you find any mistake, reject 
the voice in the closet and acknowledge the 
voice of God in His word. Beloved, if you 



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refuse to do this your case is hopeless. As 
soon as the devil has killed your influence 
and spoiled your usefulness he will turn 
upon you as a roaring lion and bring your 
soul into darkness and despair, and quite 
likely into hell. Oh, flee, flee, flee, beloved, 
while you may. Take warning from one 
who understands your case. "Turn ye, turn 
ye; why will ye die?" 



CHAPTER XIV. 



How to Resist Fanaticism. 

First, by prayer. In such cases we must 
have the help of God. The devil is just as 
apt to use a good man to hinder and oppose 
the real Holy Ghost work, as he is to use a 
good person to help him carry on his 
satanic work. The power of God will always 
defeat the devil, but we only get the power 
of God by prayer and a close walk with Him. 
Much wisdom is needed to discern the spuri- 
ous from the true, because fanatical persons 
are made of those who had the real at one 
time, and it is a fine point just to know 
where the real ends, and the false begins. 
Then again, the majority of the saints know 
absolutely nothing of fanaticism, and they 
take it for granted that all demonstrations 
are from God ; hence great wisdom is needed 
to avoid confusion in the ranks of the saints, 
for this would be just as fatal, and the devil's 
second object is to cause a division among 
the saints, and in this way get them to 
grieve the Spirit of God away and gain his 
satanic purpose. The author has found it 
a good plan to have a private prayer meet- 
ing, that is, have a few that understand the 



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situation go together in private prayer and 
ask the dear Lord for wisdom and the gift of 
descerning of spirits and power to cast out 
the unclean, and the Lord will answer the 
prayer of faith. Next the evil spirit must 
be resisted. Often the ones that are pros- 
trated will ask the leader or some other one 
to kneel down and pray. In certain cases 
this is alright, if you have faith in God and 
wisdom to pray right; that is, pray in words 
that the fanatic and her friends will not de- 
tect and yet in a spirit that will rebuke the 
devil and honor God. This is not hard to 
do if you understand the situation. You can 
ask God to protect you from the devices of 
the devil and bless you with the real Holy 
Ghost work and power. The people won't 
notice this, but both God and the devil will 
understand it. 

If there is a seeker at the altar you can- 
ask the Holy Ghost to undertake for him ; 
ask God to help him keep his eyes off of 
these people and fix them alone on Jesus, 
and trust Him only for help in this hour of 
need. You see, we can defeat the devil by 
obeying him and pray when he asks us, with- 
out getting under his satanic influence. 

In other cases we may have to refuse to 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 77 

kneel, in fact refuse to do everything the 
fanatic tells us to do, and thus by our re- 
fusal resist and defeat the devil in silence. 
The devil is after all a great coward, and 
when a saint resists him he will flee, especi- 
ally so when he knows that you understand 
his scheme. The writer had to do this in 
some cases, and when asked to come to them 
did not go right away, and when he did go 
would not stoop down or kneel down when 
told to do so. Just simply give the devil 
to understand that we are aware of his 
tricks, and he was defeated and the spell 
was broken. 

Now, all this must be done in the best of 
spirit and kindness, or the saints will be dis- 
pleased, loose confidence in you and oppose 
vou, and this would again cause division and 
confusion, and of course defeat. 

A grain, w r e have resisted by telling others 
not to eo, or do what thev were told to do 
by the slain, simply to defeat the devil. The 
effect of this resistance can soon be noticed 
by the wide awake, the groans will some- 
times increase and break out in fearful 
screams, but this is only a sign that you 
have hit the nail, and the devil will try his 
best to scare you and make you believe ypn 



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are doing wrong, but if you are firm and 
don't flinch you will soon see a change. The 
devil, fearing exposure, will leave the field. 
The fanatic will come to, and in many cases 
will claim that you defeated him and the 
Lord's work, and if you were only out of 
the way God's work could go on. They will 
tell you that Jesus himself could not do 
many mighty works there, because of un- 
belief. This is a great hiding place for the 
defeated fanatic. In some cases the seeker 
can be induced to leave the altar and go to 
his tent and pray, and if some saints will go 
with him and labor with him it will gener- 
ally work well and make short work of both 
the seeker and the fanatic. The seeker will 
get saved and the fanatic relieved and the 
devil defeated. In other cases it may be 
necessary to carry the fanatic out of the 
tabernacle or church. The writer is of the 
opinion that order should prevail, and the 
congregation should be kept under control. 
If this can not be done otherwise the slain 
should be carried out. It is surely an insult 
to the cause of Christ to allow the congrega- 
tion to be broken up on account of the 
heneous screams of the fanatic and the 
masses be made to say hard things or do 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 7!) 

wrong things. In such cases the very last 
one should be carried out immediately. But 
you say, "We must not touch the ark of 
God; one man fell dead that put forth his 
hand to steady the ark/' Well, in the first 
place we will say that the man that fell dead 
was not a priest, and he had no business 
there; he was out of his place. And in the 
second place, this is not the ark of God, it is 
the devil's work. But how do you know? 
"It is not the will of God that one soul 
should perish, but that all should come to 
the knowledge of the truth and live/' Any- 
thing that drives conviction away and 
causes a people to blaspheme, that a few 
minutes before sat quietly and with deep 
interest listened to the preaching of the 
word is not of God, and no saint was ever 
killed of God for resisting the devil. But 
a sinner is in danger when he interferes with 
the work of the Lord. "But," says one, "I 
believe God takes care of His own work." 
So He does, and this is the way He does it, 
some one has said: "Christ alone can save 
the world, but Christ can not save the world 
alone." But someone says, "May we not 
make a mistake?" Well, suppose we did, 
and suppose we did carry one out that really 



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had the burden of soul, would that defeat 
God? Could not God overrule our mistake 
and carry out His plans in spite of our 
ignorance? Is a mistake done in ignorance 
a condeming sin? And again, does not God 
look on the heart more than on the actions? 
Now then, suppose we thought it to be to 
the glory of God to carry a slain person out 
of the tent, would it be like God to kill us 
for doing that which we really thought was 
right to do? Is it not a fact that we make 
many mistakes most every day of our life; 
and does he kill us for them? or does he 
show us our mistakes and give us a chance 
to confess them? Well then, if God is so 
gratious to us in small matters, why would 
He not be in matters of so great import- 
ance. "Oh, ye of little faith." It is the uevil 
that puts this fear on the servant of the 
Lord, lest he should hinder him in his 
satanic work. If God must have instru- 
ments to preach the gospel and carry his 
work forward here upon earth, why not 
have instruments to protect it also ? We have 
felt the approving smile of God upon our 
soul as we carried such out of the tent and 
in that way broke the spell and defeated the 
devil in his work. 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 81 

We are quite sure that God expects His 
servants to see that order prevails in the 
house of worship, and that He will bless the 
one that dares to remove the cause of the 
disturbance. 



CHAPTER XV. 



Personal Experience. 

We had not seen much of what is called 
u the slaying power" until we saw it in our 
own meetings. We remember that we were 
quite distressed at first and asked a dear 
saint what to do about it. She said, "Do 
nothing ; this is of God." Well, it happened 
so often that we soon got used to it; in fact 
it was not long until we were rather pleased 
with it, and thought we were favored by 
the good Lord, with these wonderful mani- 
festations, to convince the people that our 
preaching was of God. We often prayed 
the Lord to send the "knock down power 
upon us." Well, we always had consider- 
able of it everywhere we went, and with very 
few exceptions thought it was alright. 

In the years of 1896 and 1897, while en- 
gaged in city mission work, the enemy took 
the advantage of our ignorance and carried 
some of our workers over into fanaticism. 
Many strange and extreme things happened, 
but we believed it was all of God, and of 
course encouraged and endorsed it all. One 
night as we had gone to our room to retire, 
and while engaged in prayer, one of our 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 8S 

workers came to the door and asked us to 
open it. We arose from our knees and did 
so. To our great surprise there stood before 
us one of our sister workers, with a wild 
look and distorted countenance and appar- 
ently in great distress of mind and pain in 
body, and said very authoritatively, "Brother 
Kauffman, are you right in your experi- 
ence?" We said unhesitatingly, "Yes, we 
are right." She said, "Now, Brother Kauff- 
man, you know you are not right." We said, 
"If we were not right we were surely one of 
the most deceived persons that ever lived. 
She said, "You are not right, and you know 
you are not right," and began to cry and to 
plead for me to confess and get right with 
God. I declared with firmness that I had 
no condemnation on my soul and the 
Holy Ghost — the Blessed Comforter — was 
in my heart and had full control of my life, 
but she said it was not so ; "you are not 
right," and began to urge us to confess. 
"Oh, Brother Kauffman, God showed me 
that you are not right," and began to urge 
me to confess or be forever lost," and then 
she went into a spell, her hands just flapped 
like the wings of a bird : her face all dis- 
tracted and in great agony of body and soul. 



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She urged me to be honest and confess. I 
or you will be forever lost," and then she 
went into a spell, her hands just flapped like 
the wings of a bird ; her face all distracted 
and in great agony of body and soul. She 
urged me to be honest and confess. I 
thought my whole life over in a few min- 
utes, but still declared my sincerity and 
uprightness of heart and life, but she said 
God showed her different and no matter 
what I said, I knew myself that it was not 
true, and she would go off into another 
spell. I honestly tried to think of every act 
of my life. The only unsettled question in 
my life that I could think of was that of 
"social gjjcity," and I finally said, "If there 
is anything in my life that I am wrong or 
deceived in it is on the question of 'social 
purity.' " She insisted that I must get on 
my knees and confess to God that I was 
deceived. By this time my mind was in a 
high degree of excitement, and so without 
the least bit of conviction or condemnation 
I got on my knees. At this point she left 
me and went to her room. I never went to 
bed that night. I searched my heart and 
life, but could not find anything wrong and 
not even a question but the one above men- 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 85 

tioned. I prayed the dear Lord to show 
His smiling face if I was right with Him. 
But in the excitement of my mind and in the 
great distress I did not trust Him, but be- 
came desperate and heart broken. I plunged 
into doubts, darkness and despair. I could 
not believe I was lost and yet I could not 
find God. Oh, such a night. The hours 
were long; my soul would plunge from one 
dark spell into another. I would think of 
the sweet peace I enjoyed just a few hours 
ago and now lay bleeding like a lamb torn 
to pieces by a wild beast with no one to 
comfort me. My dear wife wanted to come 
to my help, but was not allowed. "Let him 
die," was the command. I tried to make 
myself believe that she was a fanatic, and 
that I was alright, but the power over me 
was so great that I could not do it. I would 
come to the conclusion that as soon as it was 
daylight she would have to leave the prem- 
ises, but then the impression would come to 
me, "that will not help you if you are not 
right with God." and then I would plunge 
into another dark spell. As soon as it was 
daylight I went into the hall a block away 
to seek God, but as I got on my knees a 
great fear came over me. I imagined the 



86 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

hall was full of devils of all sizes. I hastened 
back to our home, called the folks and asked 
them to please come and pray for me, that 
I was a lost soul. We went to prayer, but 
oh, such a struggle. I imagined that I was 
hanging over hell on a little rope and ready 
to drop into the liquid flames with devils at 
my feet dragging me down, and then I would 
be lifted up until almost out and then go 
down again. This continued for two long 
hours of untold agony. I was in the tor- 
ments of hell, but all at once the spell broke 
and I was free. I thanked God for freedom. 
Of course there was great joy in our home 
and in my heart, and I of course believed it 
was all of God, and if it had not been for the 
faithfulness of this dear sister I would have 
lifted my eyes up in torment like the rich 
man did. Now then, in all this I did not 
find one sin to repent of, and only one ques- 
tion, and that the question of "social purity," 
and to figure this out I must have been de- 
ceived for five or six years already. And I 
went before the public and confessed that 
for over five years I had lived in a deceived 
condition of soul and all my preaching and 
labors in the ministry was under the influ- 
ence of the devil. I would not preach again 



FANATIICSM EXPLAINED. 87 

until I would be sanctified and was sure that 
God wanted me to preach. I sought the 
Holy Ghost day and night, and several days 
afterwards I found Him and once more felt 
the burden for souls and preached with the 
usual unction and power, but I was now 
ruined because I was under the power of a 
fanatic. I would not do a thing nor take a 
step without the counsel of this sister. I at 
once became an extremist on the "social 
purity" question, and by advice of my coun- 
selor I wrote a tract on "Social Purity" with 
my awful experience attached to it ; printed 
5,000 of them and scattered them to the four 
winds of heaven. Many of these tracts 
caused much trouble between husband and 
wife and did an immense amount of harm. 
My preaching was much on this line, and 
many persons became so muddled up in their 
experience and got into trouble that com- 
plaint was made to my presiding elder. I 
was visited by a committee. I was cautioned, 
warned, and finally suspended from the min- 
istry on the ground of fanaticism. We de- 
nied the charge, paid no attention to it, but 
went right on until we had made the church 
much trouble, ruined our own work and 
brought ourselves into great disgrace with 



88 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

the public. The cruel spirit of fanaticism 
so broke our sister down in health by the 
long fastings and extreme burdens that we 
had to send her home for rest. 

By this time the yoke became heavy, 
nearly all my church members had left me; 
they would not come to meeting nor support 
us. The brethren in the ministry tried to 
set me right, and not understanding my 
case, made it very hard for me. The lash 
was put to me from every quarter ; my best 
friends forsook me; kind words were few; 
I could find no fault in myself; I had done 
all a poor soul could do; I wept and wept 
for hours and hours and hours; my nights 
were long and sleepless. I often wished I 
had some crime to confess, or that I might 
go to jail and serve a sentence and in this 
way satisfy the demands of my friends and 
gain my freedom, but all in vain. Mine was 
the most pitiful case I ever heard of. Under 
the extreme load of suffering my health 
began to fail — the weakest part always fails 
first. I went into quick consumption. I 
rejoiced at the thought that death would 
soon relieve me, and I would go to where 
my brethren would understand me and love 
me. Oh ! the awful yoke of fanaticism. My 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 89 

daily cry was, "Oh death, hasten; come to 
my relief." T was an outcast by my brethren 
and my fellowmen in general, and as far as 
I could see, only because I was true to God. 
One day while I was in prayer and in 
great distress the voice of God came to me 
and told me that our sister was led by wrong 
impressions and proved it to me by an un- 
mistakable evidence. I sat down and wrote 
a letter to her and proved to her that one of 
her messages was not of God, and that here- 
after I would get my own messages directly 
from God and from His word. A great 
t>eace came over my soul as I wrote this 
letter. T received a reply in a few days 
which contained the following: "If I was 
wrong in that case, wherein am I ri^ht? 
Brother, pray for me." T at once wrote a 
1 etter to mv presiding" elder and enclosed 
her letter and asked him to come to me on 
the first train and help me out. I would 
surrender and take whatever punishment he 
had for me. My dear presiding elder cnmo 
in a few days, and after some conversation 
we shook hands, kissed and hugged each 
other and then on bended knees with sobbing 
heart we asked God to forgive me and help 
me to rectify as far as possible the wrong 



90 FANATIICSM EXPLAINED. 

influence that had gone out from our actions, 
and overrule it and enable us to defeat the 
enemy and honor God as in days before. 

The presiding elder withdrew the suspen- 
sion and restored me in a legal way. 

But six years of faithful service in that 
conference never restored me to the confi- 
dence of that church as it was before this 
came to pass. But the dear Lord smiled 
upon me and healed my lungs and let me go 
into a new field of labor and gave me great 
victory in His service. The dear sister was 
also led to see her mistake, confess and 
throw ofif the heavy yoke of fanaticism, and 
is still in the service of the Master. 

These are some of the results of 
fanaticism. This is what satan aims at, and 
what he will accomplish if not resisted. 

As a proof of this let my reader investi- 
gate the history of early Methodism or of 
Free-Methodism, the history of the saints, 
often called the gospel trumpet people, the 
short but terrible history of the Fire Bap- 
tised Holiness Association of America, com- 
monly called the third experience, or the 
third blessing people and you will see that 
my story is correct. These people were all 
"red hot" Holiness folks as a people, but 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 91 

the things written in this book are a part of 
their history, and unless our Holiness 
churches and Holiness unions will profit by 
their example and rebuke the fanatic devil, 
much harm will be done by him among them. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Satanic Religion. 

The following is taken from "The Age to 
Come, and the Signs of Its Approach/' by 
Rev. G. D. Watson : 

"The Spirit speaketh expressly that in the 
latter times some shall depart from the 
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and 
doctrines of devils ; forbidding to marry, and 
commanding to abstain from meats." I Tim. 

4: 1-3. 

There never was a time on earth when 
the devil had so many preachers, deluding 
so many people with false religion as in 
these days, and did you know that it is a 
trick of the devil to invent some kind of 
religion professing to make people live more 
holy than the Bible requires. The Romish 
doctrine that priests shall not marry, under 
the pretense that it renders them more holy 
than married people, has been the source of 
more moral rottenness than any one thing 
on earth. It is amazing how the devil has 
stulified quite a number of Protestant pro- 
fessors of Holiness into the same delusion, 
that in order to be extra holy people should 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 93 

not marry, or if they do marry, live only as 
brothers and sisters, which is nothing but 
the doctrine of devils. A modern phrase 
has been coined called "marital purity," 
which is not in the Bible, and not taught in 
the Bible, and in reality is denounced by 
St. Paul as being "marital fraud" (i Cor. 
7: 5) and is the source of domestic quar- 
rels and a whole train of self-righteousness 
and corruption. The same satanic teaching 
applies to the "meat" question. Satan has 
two policies, the first is to do everything to 
prevent people from scriptural holiness of 
heart and life, and the other is when people 
want to be holy to delude them into some 
sort of outlandish and unnatural extremes, 
and a straining after a kind of holiness that 
is above the Bible requirements. Spiritual- 
ism pretends to be in advance of old-fash- 
ioned New Testament faith, and Mormonism 
claims to be in advance of Apostolic experi- 
ences, and Swedenborgianism insists that it 
is transcendent above plain Bible salvation; 
and Christian Science, which has no Christ 
and no science either, pretends to be so 
divine that the human mind is a part of God, 
and second probation, and annihilation, put 
in a claim of being a great deal better than 



94 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

m - 

the God of the Bible, who will punish incor- 
rigible sinners with everlasting perdition. 
The first lie the devil told Eve was to make 
her believe that satan was better than God, 
and that same lie crops out in every satanic 
religion ; that he has something extra and 
beyond plain, humble Bible salvation. These 
satanic religions are located by prophecy 
in the latter times. (Page 21-23.) 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Satanic Impressions. 

(This chapter is taken from "Impres- 
sions/" by Rev. M. W. Knapp.) 



Be Not Deceived. 

Satan and his emissaries, disguised as 
"angels of light" by wrong impressions are 
ever seeking to ruin and to divert God's 
children from their divinely appointed mis- 
sion. He always shapes his methods to his 
victims, and whom he can ont openly allure 
he seeks to subtilly deceive. He accom- 
plishes his purpose with many impressions 
in a way something like that by which we 
poison rats. We do not throw down a lot 
of strychnine and say, "Rats, eat it and die." 
We take just a little and mingle it with some 
meal, so concealed that they will not suspect 
the poison, and then they eat the meal and 
with it poison enough to cause their death. 
So satan takes the meal of divine truth and 
mingles with it enough error to accomplish 
his purpose, and men eat and are betrayed. 

Hence, we find that as a pan of meal which 
is prepared with poison, appears precisely 
like one which is free from it, and would 



96 PANATIICSM EXPLAINED. 

pass as harmless unless analyzed, so impres- 
sions from below may be apparent counter- 
parts of those from above. They may ex- 
actly resemble them in the following im- 
portant particulars : 

i. They are inward impressions made 
upon our spirits. 

2. They are often very strong impres- 
sions. Fanaticism is born in the land of 
strong, but wrong impressions. 

3. They occur repeatedly. See how satan 
persisted with our first parents, with Job, 
and with Jesus. He will keep repeating his 
messages as long as he can deceive his vic- 
tims into giving him a hearing, and all of his 
agents are possessed of like perseverance. 

4. They frequently occur during prayer 
and other devotions. Nothing is more in 
keeping with their object than to divert from 
communion with God, hence the idea that 
impressions are of God simply because they 
occur at such times is erroneous. They may 
be from above or they may be from below. 

5. Like good impressions they may be 
brought to us by our friends. Tob had more 
trouble from his friends than from both 
affliction and satan combined. Though thev 
meant well, the impressions they made were 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 97 

not from above. Elephaz, Bildad and 
Zophar, Job's misguided counsellors, have 
had their counterparts in all ages. 

6. Wrong impressions, like good ones, 
may be attended by a chain of circumstances 
which seem to confirm their truthfulness. 
Satan is allowed great latitude and shows 
great cunning in arranging his program to 
thwart divine purposes; selfish human 
nature also is eagle-eyed to claim as provi- 
dential indications that were never so de- 
signed. It might have seemed providential 
to the assassin, Booth, that Lincoln was at 
the theater that fatal night, but does that 
prove that the murderer's impressions were 
of God? 

7. Wrong impressions may be and often, 
though not always, are in harmany with our 
natural desires. The forbidden fruit which 
was proffered in Paradise, and which ap- 
peared so "good" and "pleasant" and "de- 
sirable" has lost none of its attractiveness, 
and is far from being exhausted. 

8. Evil impressions may also, like the 
good, be attended by striking passages of 
Scripture, which seem to sanction them. 
The devil and his agents as in the tempta- 
tions of Jesus, never fail to quote Scripture 






38 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

when they can pervert it to deceive and to 
strengthen their purposes. 

Mrs. H. W. Smith says she knew an 
earnest Christian who had the text, "all 
things are yours/' so strongly impressed 
upon her mind in regard to some money that 
belonged to another person, that she felt that 
it was a direct command to steal the money, 
and after a struggle did so, with most griev- 
ous results. 

Like those from above, they may come 
suddenly and unexpectedly. "Soon after re- 
ceiving the blessing of perfect love," writes 
a correspondent, "I came across a man who 
had lost the experience because he refused 
to yield to a sudden impression to kneel and 
pray when he entered a railroad car. I de- 
termined to be warned by what I thought 
was his mistake, but was led into a similar 
one in the following way: 'When at the 
Des Moines Holiness camp meeting I was 
walking one morning by the tabernacle 
when suddenly and strongly I was im- 
pressed to kneel down right where I was. 
Hesitating and embarrassed I did so, though 
feeling very much out of place. Having 
yielded to this impulse, then satan made me 
believe I had better go through with it, and 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 99 

1 foolishly did so, kneeling for some time. I 
arose wiser and determined not to be de- 
ceived by satan in that manner any more. 
The impression came quickly and strongly, 
and, as the boys express it, 'like the slop 
over way' of an impulsive, willful man/ ,; 

In all of the above and other particulars 
impressions from below may be like those 
from above and thus robed as "angels of 
light" satan seeks through them to "'deceive, 
if it were possible, the very elect." 

On the enemy's success in passsing this 
counterfeit coin Dr. G. D. Watson says : 

"He does not work among sinners as he 
does among saints. He has one method of 
work among sinners and another for con- 
verted, and another for sanctified people, 
and in the higher ranges of Christian life it 
is to imitate the Holy Spirit. 

"Another trick of the devil is to get sanc- 
tified people, where they are lead by impres- 
sion. Some are frightened right off and go 
down ; but if the devil finds he can not scare 
you and can not make you stop testifying, 
then he will go round and attack you on the 
other side. I don't know T whether you folks 
will believe what I am going to tell you, but 
it is the truth. 



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100 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

"The devil can make people feel tremen- 
dously happy. I have learned a great deal 
in the past fifteen years of the experiences 
of people. He can produce a fictitious hap- 
piness, and he will make you feel so with 
special reference to getting you where you 
live on impressions, and then the devil has 
got all he wants. Then he puts on his Sun- 
day clothes and turns himself into an angel 
of light. 

"People — even Christian people — do not 
believe Scripture at this point. I have seen 
people so deluded by the devil, and I have 
said : 'Don't you know the devil can turn 
himself into an angel of light?' 'Oh, yes/ 
they say ; 'but the devil isn't leading me !' 
Tf God tells me to do so I will do it,' they 
say. 

"Again he says, 'I am the Holy Spirit.' 
And you can not detect him unless God 
helps you. He will begin by making you do 
something that is very nice for God. For 
instance, he will make you pray, but he will 
make you pray in the wrong way and at the 
wrong time. He will tell you to do a great 
many things, but he will always tell you or 
impress you to do these things in a queer, 
outlandish or unnatural way. He savs to 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 103 

one sister, when the child is crying and the 
bread about to burn, 'Now, the Holy Ghost 
says you must go and pray an hour ; let the 
baby cry and the coffee-pot boil over.' I 
know these are facts. And the person goes 
off as sincere as an angel and kneels down 
and prays, and the baby may get scalded to 
death. 

"God, the Holy Ghost, in all his leadings 
never leads people in an abnormal way, or 
an unnatural, or a strained way.. God 
doesn't strain you ; he doesn't put the thumb 
screw on you and strain your muscles until 
they crack and snap, but the devil does. 

"A person goes to meeting and says : 'The 
Lord sent me here today with a special mes- 
sage/ It may be time for the meeting to 
close, but he thinks he has a special message 
from the Lord, and he must tell it, though 
everybody else thinks it is time to go home. 
These people insist that the Holy Ghost 
sent them. Why? Because the devil has 
got them on that road, going by impres- 
sions, going the way you feel. One man 
said, 'God has sanctified me and I w^ant to 
Drove to you that I am a holy man, and the 
Holy Ghost tells me to go clown to the door 
have vou walk over my body.' I am 



102 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

giving facts ; all these things occurred. And 
they walked out of the door over his body 
to prove he was holy. 

"The devil knows he can not make us lie, 
or steal, or do any of these things, but he is 
trying to make you do pious things in a 
most outlandish and most unnatural and 
most abnormal way. I tell you there is a 
tremendous amount of that work done. 
People think they are led by the Holy 
Ghost, and they are led by the devil as an 
angel of light. 

"You can recognize these people. In their 
prayers, in their sermons, in their efforts, 
there is always a sense of strangeness. They 
seem to be oppressed, to be burdened, to be 
unnatural. There is not tranquility, or 
frankness. The devil is a hard master. 

"Another trick of the devil is to imitate 
the Holy Ghost. The devil knows that the 
Holy Ghost is our leader. Jesus is gone to 
heaven. We have the written word, but the 
Holy Ghost must explain to us the word of 
God and reveal to us Jesus. And if the devil 
can imitate the Holy Ghost, that is his 
strong fort among Christian people. 
Among his own people he talks his own 
language. 



FANATIICSM EXPLAINED. 103 

"Another method of the devil is to imitate 
the Holy Spirit by giving people fictitious 
calls, fictitious beliefs, giving them dreams. 
The devil can make impressions and pro- 
duce artificial happiness and artificial joy in 
order to switch the soul off. 

"Of course, after he gets the soul off he 
will then make him do something more and 
more absurd, and by and by make him com- 
mit some sin ; but he always begins deli- 
cately and tenderly. If a person is per- 
fectly true to God, although the Lord may 
allow him to be annoyed and sometimes 
hindered by satan, I can not see but what 
God will see that his soul is delivered from 
the devil's power. 

"Thus artful is the approach of satan 
towards the souls whom he seeks to betray. 
How needful, therefore, the admonition. 

"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the 
Lord, and in the power of His might. Put 
on the whole armour of God, that ye may 
be able to stand against the wiles of the 
devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and 
blood, but against principalities, against 
pow r ers, against the rulers of the darkness of 
this world, against spiritual wickedness in 
high places, wherefore take unto you the 



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FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 



whole armour of God that ye may be able 
to withstand in the evil day, and having 
done all, to stand.'' (Eph. 6: 10-13.) (Chap- 
ter II. page 19-26, Knapp's Book of Impres- 
sions.) 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Fanaticism From Satan's Side — Tracts for 
Holiness People. 



By Rev. W. B. Godby. 
Satan always does his best to run sancti- 
fied people into wild fanaticism. He does 
this by sending an evil spirit (the air is full 
of these demons of whom satan is com- 
mander-in-chief) whose office is invested in 
the habiliments of an angel of light by his 
victim and pass himself for the Holy Ghost. 
At first he presents good and plausible 
things and laudable motives, but in some 
way out of harmony with the will of God 
as to time, place and environments, thus, by 
be able to stand against the wills of the 
ducing a deflection from the cloudless noon- 
day of the word, Spirit and providence, 
until you ultimately get radically revolu- 
tionized and fatally turned out of the 
straight and narrow way of Holiness unto 
the Lord, till, right-about faced, you are now 
traveling down to hell instead of up to 
heaven, still retaining your profession of 
Holiness, but contradicting it by your life, 



106 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

like a woman quite celebrated as a teacher 
of Holiness in Tacoma, Wash., who, at the 
time of my information, was attending balls 
and theaters, not as a participant, but, as 
she claimed, that she might win the people 
to Christ who frequented such places, thus 
flatly contradicting Paul in i Thess. 5 : 22 — 
"Avoid every appearance of evil." I have 
known of people making loud professions of 
sanctification, go so far into fanaticism as to 
become utterly unteachable. In that case 
they are so completely side-tracked by satan 
that our only possible resort to save them is 
by prayer, as in the case of an infidel or a 
haughty reprobate. 

True Christians are always open to light, 
truth and conviction. This is preeminently 
true in the sanctified experience. There is 
but one effectual guaranty against fanat- 
icism, and that is the triple leadership of 
the infallible One. God has provided ample 
fortification against all the side-tracking 
agencies of satan's myridons in the won- 
derful and infallible triple leadership of the 
Word, Spirit and Providence. The Word is 
for the enlightenment and edification of the 
intellect ; the Spirit is for the illumination, 
sanctification and guidance of your own 



FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 107 

spirit, while God's Providence environs, 
cares for, and leads your body. If you fol- 
low the Word to the exclusion of the Spirit 
and Providence, you will degenerate into 
dead formality. If you follow Providence 
without due appreciation of the Word and 
Spirit, you are in danger of drifting away 
into cold Deism. While if you follow the 
Spirit to the exclusion of the Word and 
Providence, you thereby open the door for 
a demon arrayed as an angel of light, and 
passing himself for the Holy Ghost, to creep 
in and fatally delude you. It is utterly un- 
safe from this consideration — i. e., the lia- 
bility of demoniacal intervention and delu- 
sion — to adopt the maxim of following the 
Holy Ghost unconditionally. 

He does not want us to follow Him, but 
His mission on the earth is to get us all to 
follow Jesus. He does not speak of Himself, 
but always speaks of Jesus. "So many as 
are led by the Spirit of God, they are the 
sons of God." (Rom. 8: 14.) So it is our 
glorious privilege to be constantly led by 
the Holy Spirit, but He always leads us 
right in the track, with our eye on Jesus. As 
the Holy Spirit has no incarnation, these 
shrewd and trickv demons can counterfeit 



108 FANATICISM EXPLAINED. 

Him. They were all once angels in heaven 
before they lost their first estate, (Jude 6) 
consequently they know how to play the 
angel and pass themselves for the Holy 
Ghost. As Jesus has a perfect, glorified 
body, and these demons have no incarna- 
tion, they can not counterfeit Him. Thus 
you have the infallible example of Jesus re- 
vealed in the four Gospels. Consequently 
you have nothing to do but to study His 
biography and live as He lived, walking in 
His footprints and keeping your eye on Him. 
In that case the Holy Ghost will always lead 
you by the hand, giving you constant victory 
over all your enemies, your way shining 
brighter and brighter unto the perfect day, 
consequently, thus fortified, you can never 
go astray. 



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